Work with a standalone RSS reader for your network and online materials. Configure the options for collecting, displaying, scrolling, and updating news feeds according to your specifications and task requirements. Combine multiple sources manually or automatically.
Caffeinated is a very nice Google Reader desktop app. It allows you to connect to your Google Reader account and read all those RSS feeds you eagerly wait for each morning. This is a free app, which is in an early beta, but it still manages to look great and work like a charm. Of course, there are some features that you will find in commercial apps that this app simply doesn't have. But I am pretty sure more features will be added in the future.
The main window shows a list of your RSS subscriptions on the left pane, along with a number of unread items next to each subscription. To the right are the headlines and the pane to the right of the screen shows the actual news article in full-size, even with images. This pane shows the date the article was released with a red ribbon on the top, so you can't really miss it. Also, the name of the RSS feed is added in a subtitle.
Graphically, Caffeinated looks a lot like Reeder. It has a very smooth user interface with a nice choice of fonts and colors. Reading news is very easy with this app and I love the fact that it can synchronize with Google Reader so that the news that you read on this will appear as read on Google Reader. Kudoz go to the developer for a very nice app.
v2.0 [Jul 4, 2013]
Bug fixes:
Fixed crashing due to invalid favicons
Fixed crashing to do with RDF formats
Fixed various crashing for 10.6
Fixed issues where some feeds were not detected, an example would be Steam's feeds
Fixed issue where the subscription add popover would not close due to always being modal
Fixed issue with sharing an image location causing a crash / hang
Fixed issue with the remove button not working
Fixed various UI oddities with popovers
Fixed issue with encoded URL's being sent from browsers when adding feeds
( Possibly ) Fixed issue with the menu bar not appearing
Fixed unread counts not updating when marking as unread
Whats changed:
Much better support for RDF format feeds
Much better support for foreign characters
Shortcut for next item will select the first item if no selection is present
Shortcut for previous item will select last item if no selection is present
Save dialogs will now default to the last save path
Whats new:
You can now toggle notifications for individual send to services
